Resla Wesonga is a project and research lead with The Omidyar Group. She conducted the research that led to the formation of the Governance Futures Network and is currently stewarding its establishment and operations.

Previously, Resla worked as outreach coordinator for Princeton in Africa where she managed all the West Africa-based fellows, revamped and diversified the organization’s communication strategy, and organized fundraising campaigns that gathered over $250,000. She has also held internships at the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center in Bangkok, Thailand where she helped include rights- and gender-based approaches in disaster risk management policies across Asia; the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington D.C., where she conducted an impact assessment of the Zimbabwe grants program; Fidelity Bank in Accra, Ghana, where she worked to expand the bank’s financial inclusion programs; and Keepod in Tel Aviv, Israel, where she helped diversify Keepod’s partners in the Kenyan educational market.

Resla holds a BA in Political Science and African Studies and an MA in Global Affairs from Yale University.